List Of Social Landlords

How Many Housing Associations Are There In The UK?

There are 1,539 housing associations and other non-council social landlords across England, Wales and Scotland: 1,345 in England, 58 in Wales and 136 in Scotland. Most are non-profit housing associations; the count also includes co-operatives, charities, almshouses and a small number of for-profit registered providers. Counted from the official registers; Northern Ireland is not included yet.

How Many Councils Own Social Housing?

269 councils across England, Wales and Scotland still own and let their own council homes: 232 in England, 11 in Wales and 26 in Scotland. Other councils have transferred their homes to housing associations, but still run the local housing waiting list.

How Many Social Landlords Are There In England?

There are 1,577 social landlords registered with the Regulator of Social Housing in England: 1,345 housing associations and other registered providers, and 232 councils that still own homes. Many are small, managing a few hundred homes or fewer; a few own tens of thousands.

Is There A List Of All Social Landlords?

Yes. This page lists every social landlord in England, Wales and Scotland (housing associations, councils and other registered landlords), taken from the official registers: the Regulator of Social Housing (England), the Welsh Government (Wales) and the Scottish Housing Regulator (Scotland). Search by name; each one opens a profile with its regulator grades, homes, rents and, where published, tenant satisfaction.

Every social landlord has to be registered with, or regulated by, its nation's regulator: the Regulator of Social Housing in England (housing associations and councils that own homes alike), the Welsh Government in Wales and the Scottish Housing Regulator in Scotland. The list below brings those official registers together, along with the councils in Wales and Scotland that still own their own homes. Every organisation on it is accountable to a regulator for how it's run and how it treats its tenants.

If you're considering a mutual exchange, it's worth checking your prospective swap partner's landlord against this list before you get too far into arranging anything. A registered provider is legally accountable to the regulator, has to follow set consumer standards around repairs, safety and how they handle complaints, and - unlike an unregistered private landlord - can't simply refuse a mutual exchange without a valid, legally recognised reason.

You'll find a mix of organisation types here. Local authorities are councils that still directly manage their own housing stock, rather than having transferred it to a housing association. Housing associations are independent non-profit landlords - some manage a handful of properties in one town, others operate nationally across tens of thousands of homes. A smaller number are charities or almshouses, often with a long history and a specific local or charitable remit that predates the modern social housing system entirely.

Search by name below to find a specific provider, or use it to double-check that an organisation you've been told about is genuinely registered rather than just claiming to be. Where we know it, we've linked through to the provider's own website so you can go straight to their tenancy or mutual exchange policy.